Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > Does HTTP support POST redirect? I thought it did not.
>
> It does. In several forms.
>
> We have
>
> a) The original 301/302 redirects, which was meant to tell
> the user agent that the resource has moved and the sane
> request should be retried at the new location. However,
> almost everyone (if not all) implements it wrongly using a
> GET request instead.
>
> b) To solve this RFC2616 adds the 303/307 redirects, where
> 303 SHOULD result in a GET and a 307 SHOULD result in a POST
> (or whatever method was used for the first request).
>
> > I still don't see how anything could break unless the
> person issuing
> > the 301 wants it to break. Or maybe I'm just completely
> misunderstanding the issue?
>
> The issue is 'a'. Specs saying one thing, most user agents
> and servers another...
Thanks for the clarification. I made a bad assumption.
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